spinach
[ spin-ich ]
/ ˈspɪn ɪtʃ /
noun
a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.
the leaves.
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Which of the options below is the best punctuation for the sentence? It__s your turn to pick the movie __ but your sister gets to pick the board game we _ re going to play.
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TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUTOrigin of spinach
1520–30; < Middle French espinache, espinage < Old Spanish espinaca, alteration of Arabic isfānākh, perhaps < Persian
OTHER WORDS FROM spinach
spin·ach·like, adjectiveWords nearby spinach
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spinach
/ (ˈspɪnɪdʒ, -ɪtʃ) /
noun
a chenopodiaceous annual plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its dark green edible leaves
the leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable
Word Origin for spinach
C16: from Old French espinache, from Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic isfānākh, from Persian
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